Bill Baer is a visiting fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution. He was Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Antitrust Division at the US Justice Department from 2013 to 2016, and served as Director of the Bureau of Competition at the Federal Trade Commission from 1995 to 1999. He is the only person to have led antitrust enforcement at both of those agencies. In 2015, the FTC presented him with the Miles W. Kirkpatrick Lifetime Achievement Award. He has also served as Acting Associate Attorney General, the third highest official at the DOJ. Baer was head of the antitrust practice at Arnold & Porter and received his JD from Stanford Law School.

Matt Schruers is President the Computer & Communications Industry Association (CCIA). He represents the Association before Congress, courts, and the Administration and advises industry on matters including internet law, intellectual property, competition and international trade. He joined CCIA from private law practice in 2005 and has previously served as Vice President and Chief Operating Officer. He has also been an adjunct professor for over 10 years, teaching courses on intellectual property and internet law at the Georgetown University Law Center and Graduate School, and American University Washington College of Law.

A former Washington State Senator and a lifelong organizer, Pramila Jayapal (WA-07) was elected to Congress in 2016 to represent the Seattle area. She currently serves as the co-chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus and on the Judiciary, Budget, and Education and Labor Committees. She is also a member of the House Antitrust, Commercial and Administrative Law Subcommittee. As someone who came to the United States alone at the age of 16, she is one of only 14 naturalized citizens currently in Congress and was the first South Asian American woman ever elected to the House of Representatives.  

Gina Chon is a columnist for Breakingviews based in the San Francisco bureau. She joined Breakingviews in 2016 from the Financial Times, where she was the enforcement and regulatory correspondent in Washington, most recently focused on white-collar crime and cyber security. She also spent seven years at the Wall Street Journal in New York, Baghdad and Detroit, covering M&A, the Iraq war and the auto industry. She is co-author of Behind the Killing Fields, based on interviews with the Khmer Rouge’s Brother No. 2. 

Rob Cox helped found Breakingviews.com in 2000 in London. From 2004 he spearheaded the startup publication's expansion in the United States and edited daily Breakingviews columns in the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. Rob has worked as a journalist in London, Paris, Milan, New York, Washington, Chicago, Tokyo and Zurich, where he is now based. Rob was named Global Editor of Breakingviews in December 2012, three years after it was acquired by Thomson Reuters and became the financial commentary arm of one of the largest news organizations in the world. Rob frequently appears on CNBC and Monocle Radio and has written on a variety of subjects for the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, BuzzFeed, USA Today, the Globe and Mail, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, la Repubblica, the Sunday Telegraph and other publications. Prior to co-founding Breakingviews, Rob worked as European finance editor, South Europe bureau chief, and as a Wall Street and stocks reporter at Bloomberg News. Rob graduated from Columbia University's Journalism School and the University of Vermont, which gave him its Alumni Achievement Award in 2014 for his work on gun violence prevention. After the shooting in 2012 at Sandy Hook Elementary School in his hometown of Newtown, Connecticut, Rob co-founded Sandy Hook Promise with fellow members of the community and some of the victims' families. In his spare time, Rob plays ice hockey, runs slowly and skis aggressively.

With more than 30 years in the Financial Services Industry, Mike is a transformative revenue leader with expertise in B2B software, technology and SaaS sales development. Mike’s proven leadership has enhanced his ability to deliver valuable, targeted, innovative technology to his clients. Having been responsible for developing go-to-market strategies as well as guiding sales and account management activities, Mike has established a reputation as a thought leader throughout the industry.